DATE: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 15:19:13 CDT From: WY~egacy.Calvin.EDU Subject: Bending and Vibrato
Vibrato entails bending--since it is change of pitch, not just change of volume (which is tremelo, not vibrato). In a good throat vibrato, one must of course lose some degree of the bend, but how much is to be controlled, intentionally. Thus, one the three hole draw, one can do a narrow vibrato between a "triple-bend" and "double-bend" (between Ab and A, on a C harp), or a wide vibrato between Ab and B, or anything in between. I think. My harps are home.
Driving to work I was listening to songs from the Muddy Waters Box. I found a couple songs off the early songs that seemed to be in third position. One was a song with the line "She's 19 years old, and...". What is the title of that song (my tape-copy doesn't have the info), and is it Little Walter? It seemed to me the song was in C, and was played on a Bb harp (in third position). Can anyone verify this?
